Santa Fe Depot (Oklahoma City)

Santa Fe Depot, also known as the Santa Fe Transit Hub, is a historic train station located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Amtrak's Heartland Flyer makes daily round-trip service from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas. The station is the designated Intermodal Transit Hub for the region and as of 2016 is under renovation to accommodate this enhanced use. Santa Fe shares the same station ID, OKC, with the IATA code for Oklahoma City's International airport, Will Rogers World Airport.

History

The station was built in 1934 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It is an Art Deco structure located in downtown Oklahoma City at 100 South E.K. Gaylord Boulevard. It was served by the Santa Fe Railway's Texas Chief line, which later became the Lone Star under Amtrak. Amtrak discontinued the service in 1979. Subsequently, the station was vacant for 20 years and began to deteriorate.

In 1998, Jim Brewer, a developer responsible for creating the nearby Bricktown entertainment district, purchased the station from Santa Fe Railway and oversaw a renovation using $2 million funds provided through the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) to make it ADA-compliant and usable again. Amtrak entered an agreement with Brewer Entertainment to use the station as one of the end points of the new Heartland Flyer line, connecting to Fort Worth. Service began in 1999. Another $3.1 million renovation was completed in 2007, and additional ADA features were added with a $30,000 project following the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box-office smash and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944.

This musical, building on the innovations of the earlier Show Boat, epitomized the development of the "book musical", a musical play where the songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals that are able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter. In addition, Oklahoma! features musical themes, or motifs, that recur throughout the work to connect the music and story. A fifteen-minute "dream ballet" reflects Laurey's struggle with her feelings about two men, Curley and Jud.

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Oklahoma City

Betty was a blonde blue eyed babyWho marked her first birthday on easter morningbut her parents had other reasons to celebrate that dayBetty had just learnt to walk by herselfand her mother's got a new job just downtowncross from the Phillip P. Murrah in an office towerBut they don't like to see the children playthey don't like the government so what have they doneall the toys are covered in blooda little fire truck is brokenWell I guess that they think it'd be betterto reign down in hellthan to serve up in heavenwell the devil's got a seat next to himOh Timmy, he's waitingWhere was god?and don't you tell us how he works in mysterious ways?for when all is lost we're tiredof hearing that lineWhere was god?and do you think that she'll find the faith that she needs?for when all is lost and gone... and gone...well they don't like to see the children playthey don't like the government so what have they doneall the toys are covered in blooda little fire truck is broken... is broken...where was god?they don't like to see the children playdon't you tell us how he works in mysterious waysthey don't like the government so what have they donefor when all is lost and gone... and gone...But at least we have our thoughts to rememberthe pictures of you, we treasured a fewnever forget that god bless the people... of Oklahoma Citynever forget that god bless the people... of Oklahoma City

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